Thanks to Graybo for the identification, and all sorts of other useful information.
Month: April 2007
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Daisies
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Guest post, over there
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Nine point five months
Returning home after 5 days visiting family, Bernard is reimplanted into his natural environment (ie our living room) and I can at last see how quickly he is developing. Five days ago, if I planted him on the sitting room floor, I was able to coax him into crawling a few paces by constructing a precarious tower of blocks and saying to him “now, don’t demolish that.”
But now, he is flying across the room, cuddling the door (he is strangely fond of doors). A springing noise causes me to raise my head, and I realise that he has figured out how to open my CD box (better find the keys for that). He paws at the glass panel on the (long since childproofed) TV unit, trying to reach the LCD displays behind it. He pulls himself up to a stable kneeling position on the edge of the coffee table, increasing his vertical range by a foot or two. A whole slew of areas just got added to the “to-clear” list. He attempts to manually fillet a small book of Oscar Wilde quotes (which were deliberately placed in his reach for this purpose).
This is all very, very brilliant.
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Good news, everyone!
I’ve been sitting on something incredibly exciting for a few weeks now, but it’s finally come to fruition and I am confident that it can be disclosed to the public, without fear of looking like a dickhead later.
I have at last joined the echelons of bloggers-with-book-deals! It initially came as a huge surprise – after all, it’s usually the bloggers with tales of tawdry sexual exploits, or those who have lost their jobs as a direct result of having a blog, who get the book deals. I never considered for a moment that people would want to pay actual real money to read what I write, but clearly such self-deprecation was unfounded.
I’m not going to be giving up the day job just yet, which will mean that finding time to fit everything in is going to be a bit of a challenge. Still, you have to give these things a go, eh?
The book is to be called *The Curse Of Heron Peninsula*, though obviously this is subject to change.